How to Use home movie in a Sentence

home movie

noun
Definition of home movienext
  • Sean and Olivia found some great unseen home movie footage and sent that.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
  • And yet, the Zapruder film was not the only home movie taken that day.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • The wedding, in my memory, is a fuzzy home movie on fast-forward.
    — Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The pair were snuggled up on a red velvet sofa in what appeared to be a home movie theater with red padded walls.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In the home movie that still is pulled from, Bradford pretended to die after being shot.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Part documentary, part home movie, this is one crazy watch.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The result is a kind of 17-year-spanning home movie: Video snapshots of a person’s evolution.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The sculpture is in poignant dialogue with a video one floor down — looping Super 8 footage of the artist, age 12, acting in a home movie, pretending to be struck by a bullet.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The home movie stuff, my dad was an amateur cameraman and photographer.
    — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The finished walkout basement offers a home gym and the home movie theater of your dreams, with a projector, professional screen, and six reclining leather seats.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The lower level includes a basement workshop and a spectacular home movie theater.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
  • In a home movie, Steven Spielberg captures his mother and younger sister dancing, followed by one of his earliest attempts at filmmaking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The home movie shot on the front lawn in Leeds was an astonishing achievement, and a decisive step toward the vision of human interconnectedness that Le Prince would not live to see betrayed.
    — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Various organizations have also borrowed the library's popcorn maker, while families can use the machine for home movie nights that feel more like trips to the theater.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The now historic images of that horrific day were captured by snapshots and home movie camera footage taken by people in the crowd, including the 26-second 8 mm film shot by Dallas clothier Abraham Zapruder.
    — Stephen Battaglio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Advertisement The now historic images of that horrific day were captured by snapshots and home movie camera footage taken by people in the crowd, including the 26-second 8mm film shot by Dallas clothier Abraham Zapruder.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The list includes: arcade, wine room, Air B&B rental room, gym, craft room, design studio, yoga and meditation space, home library, giant closet and makeup room, recording studio, photography studio, smoking room and home movie theater.
    — By Cammy Clark, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The film features exclusive images and previously unseen home movie footage, family photographs and in-depth interviews with both literary experts and those who knew him well, including colleagues, family, and childhood friends.
    — Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023

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